For over two centuries the organization of work and labour has occupied a central place in narratives of social and economic change in the past. Agricultural labour in the eighteenth ...read more
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Latin gradually lost its dominant position as a literary language in Europe. The normativity of the Classics was increasingly questioned in the literary field, ...read more
This research project focuses on the handwritten lecture notebooks produced in the universities of the early modern Southern Netherlands. It intends to open up new horizons at the intersection of ...read more
This network funding will increase opportunities for scholarly engagement in a number of ways. Postdoctoral fellows will be employed to increase the offerings of courses related to Buddhism, and eminent ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more
This project is an investigation on the maritime history of late imperial China. Underwater archaeology is a relatively new field in the study of East Asia’s history and has repeatedly ...read more
This project aims to investigate the development of non-canonical case marking of subjects/subject-likes, throughout the history of the Germanic languages, contributing with data from Germanic vernaculars. Lexical semantic verb classes ...read more
Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
This project studies the relation between early-nineteenth-century British periodicals and the rise of the credit economy. It argues that leading contemporaneous periodicals fostered a cultural acceptance of the new economic ...read more
Over the years, historians of early modern Europe have studied religious identities as inflexible constructs, claiming that people perceived one another as either fellow believers or heretic dissidents. By drawing ...read more